Automated railroad wheel shop



April 16, 1963 W.R. MILLER, 4a., EI'AL 3,085,311

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AUTOMATED RAILROAD WHEEL SHOP 28 Sheets-Sheet 12 Filed May 13, 1959 April '16, 1963 w. R. MILLER, JR., ETAL 3,085,311

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1. A RAILROAD CAR AXLE HANDLING SYSTEM FOR ALIGNING MATED AXLES AND WHEELS FOR SUBSEQUENT ASSEMBLY COMPRISING: A CONVEYOR FOR TRANSPORTING SAID RAILROAD CAR AXLES ALONG A PREDETERMINED PATH, EACH OF SAID AXLES HAVING A MACHINED WHEEL SEAT AND A BEARING JOURNAL AT EACH END; AN AXLE GAUGING STATION AT A POINT ON SAID PATH, SAID STATION COMPRISING GAUGING MEANS TO MEASURE BOTH WHEEL SEATS, RESPECTIVELY, OF EACH AXLE AND TO TRANSFORM THE MEASUREMENTS INTO CORRESPONDING FIRST AND SECOND CONTROL SIGNALS; MEANS FOR ACTUATING SAID GAUGING MEANS IN RESPONSE TO THE DELIVERY THERETO OF EACH OF SAID AXLES ON SAID AXLE CONVEYOR; A PAIR OF WHEEL BORING MACHINES HAVING CONTROLS CONNECTED TO SAID GAUGING MEANS TO BORE AXLE HOLES IN A PAIR OF SAID RAILROAD CAR WHEELS, THE DIAMETERS OF SAID HOLES BEING DETERMINED BY SAID FIRST AND SECOND CONTROL SIGNALS, RESPECTIVELY; MEANS FOR RELEASING EACH AXLE FROM SAID GAUGING STATION TO SAID AXLE CONVEYOR IN RESPONSE TO THE BORING OF SAID PAIR OF WHEELS CORRESPONDING THERETO; ALIGNING MEANS LOCATED ON SAID PATH AT A POINT REACHED BY SAID AXLES AFTER PASSING THROUGH SAID GAUGING STATION, SAID ALIGNING MEANS HAVING WHEELRECEIVING MEANS TO RECEIVE THE PAIR OF BORED WHEELS; WHEEL CONVEYORS TO TRANSPORT DIFFERENT WHEELS OF SAID PAIR OF BORED WHEELS FROM SAID BORING MACHINE TO SAID WHEELRECEIVING MEANS, THERE TO BE ALIGNED WITH THE CORRESPONDING MEASURED WHEEL SEATS, RESPECTIVELY; MEANS FOR RELEASING SAID PAIR OF BORED WHEELS FROM SAID BORING MACHINES TO SAID WHEEL CONVEYORS IN RESPONSE TO THE BORING OF SAID PAIR OF WHEELS AND MEANS FOR ACTIVATING SAID ALIGNING MEANS IN RESPONSE TO THE DELIVERY THERETO OF EACH OF SAID AXLES AND THE PAIR OF WHEELS CORRESPONDING THERETO ON THEIR RESPECTIVE CONVEYORS, ALL SAID CONVEYORS AS TO PATH AND RATE AND SAID ALIGNING MEANS WITH WHEEL RECEIVING MEANS BEING COORDINATED SO THAT A GIVEN AXLE IN THE SEQUENCE OF AXLES WILL BE ALIGNED AND MATED WITH THE PROPER WHEELS BORED IN RESPONSE THERETO. 